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Old 22nd February 2015, 22:51   #10  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by machenotizia View Post
Really? I thought it was understood that VP9 will ever give better quality that x264.

no?
It is claimed, but I've not seen any real-world demonstration of properly-tuned x264 encoding looking worse with the same content and bitrate of a properly-tuned VP9 encoding. Particularly if you normalize by using equivalent encoding time.

If someone does have such a demo, I'd love to see it.
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